Skylanders: Imaginators

The sixth console game in the Skylanders series, developed at Toys For Bob and released in late 2016.

Platform

Developer

Release Date

Oct 16th 2016

Oct 14th 2016

Oct 13th 2016

March 3rd 2017

Story

The story of Skylanders Imaginators takes place long ago when the Ancients used a mysterious power known as "Mind Magic" to create everything in Skylands. With it, they conjured into existence anything that they could imagine! However, they soon learned that in the wrong hands, it could be very dangerous, and so they sealed it away so that it could never be misused. After discovering this ancient secret, Kaos has unleashed the power of "Mind Magic" into Skylands once again - and he is using it to create an unstoppable army of Doomlanders, the likes of which have never been seen! Now it's up to Portal Masters to create Skylanders Imaginators from their own imagination and stop Kaos and his evil Doomlanders before it is too late. And to help train them, Eon is sending the greatest mystic warriors of all time - the Senseis!

Characters

For new playable characters there are 20 brand new Skylander Senseis as well as 11 former villains. Along with their element each Sensei will also have a Battle Class from a list of ten: Smasher, Knight, Ninja, Bazooker, Quickshot, Sorcerer, Brawler, Sentinel, Swashbuckler, and Bowslinger.

The first set of characters to be revealed included King Pen, Golden Queen, and Tri-Tip. Here is a table containing all of the new Skylanders, click the + to see all the known variants:

Water

Fire

King Pen

Tidepool

Grave Clobber

Tae Kwon Crow

Flare Wolf

Ember

Dark King Pen

Mystical Tae Kwon Crow

Hard-Boiled Flare Wolf

Earth

Air

Tri-Tip

Barbella

Golden Queen

Bad Juju

Air Strike

Wild Storm

Legendary Tri-Tip

Dark Golden Queen

Mystical Bad Juju

Egg Bomber Air Strike

Magic

Undead

Mysticat

Buckshot

Pain-Yatta

Wolfgang

Pit Boss

Chopscotch

Dark Wolfgang

Legendary Pit Boss

Candy-Coated Chopscotch

Light

Tech

Aurora

Blaster-Tron

Dr. Krankcase

Chain Reaction

RO-BOW

Dr. Neo Cortex

Solar Flare Aurora

Dark

Life

Starcast

Hood Sickle

Chompy Mage

Boom Bloom

Ambush

Crash Bandicoot

Steel Plated Hood Sickle

Jingle Bell Chompy Mage

Kaos

Kaos

Kaos

Senseis

"Sensei" is the collective name for the new set of Skylanders (the villains also function as Senseis), their Battle Class determines the types of attacks and weapons they use as well as which abilities they unlock for your Imaginators. They all have a new type of super attack called Sky-Chi that slowly fills up as you defeat enemies until it reaches a point where you can unleash it on your unsuspecting foes (quite similar to the ability Trap Masters had in the 3DS version of Trap Team).

Owning a Sensei of a particular battle class will unlock a Secret Technique for your Imaginators of the same class. As well as that they will each unlock an item and a weapon for use in customisation. Senseis will also be able to access areas known as "Sensei Elemental Realms".

Creation Crystal

Included in the Starter Pack is a Fire Creation Crystal, this allows you to create and store your very own custom Fire element Skylander. To create a Skylander of a different element you'll need to purchase a Creation Crystal of that element.

Be aware that once you select a Battle Class you can not change it on that Creation Crystal ever again. So choose carefully!

Starter Pack

In the Starter Pack you get the Water Sensei Master King Pen, the Earth Villain Golden Queen, and a Fire Creation Crystal. The portal included is identical to that of the Swap Force portal (some regions instead have a modified SuperChargers Portal without a trap slot).

There is also once again a Dark Edition of the Starter Pack, it contains three Dark variant Skylanders (King Pen, Golden Queen, and Wolfgang) and three standard Creation Crystals (Fire, Life, and Dark). The pack also comes with a Gold Imaginite Mystery Chest that unlocks some gear for your Imaginators.

And there is a "Crash Edition" that is only available on PlayStation 3 and 4, it has the same contents as the regular Starter Pack plus the Crash Bandicoot and Dr. Neo Cortex toys. The characters will be available in a separately sold Adventure Pack at a later date.

Platforms

The game is only appearing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and the Wii U. That means no Wii, 3DS, or Tablet versions this year.

Comments

I'm pretty sure the Lightcore Senseis and New Characters are real. The evidence all lines up, and it's definitely something that Activision and Toys for Bob would do.
Paul Richie - CEO of Toys for Bob - said it himself, "We love our LED's."During an interview when he was asked about lightcores during Trap Team

@Originals

Welcome,
In regard to your statement,

We haven't actually gotten confirmation that there will be a Skylanders 7 next year. They could just continue adding updates to Imagintors, like they're doing now. Cause if you think about it, how could they work on Sky 7 and develop new Imaginators content at the same time.

if you put the figures list of barbella and the Instagram pic in open in new window
side by side comparisons they look similar but the posts are difference so there
might be a lightcore skylanders in 2018